Prosecutors: Driver in Edgewater fatal crash 'made no effort to slow down or brake'

Reckless homicide charges have been filed against a North Side man who ran a red light and weaved through traffic before plowing into an older man and woman, killing him and injuring her as they loaded groceries from a food pantry into a car, prosecutors said today.

The driver, Vladimir Tsemakhman, 58, who remains at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with broken fingers and head trauma, was ordered held on $300,000 bail in the death Wednesday of Frank Kiley, 71, in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood.

His red Ford Focus then struck the two victims, flinging Kiley into the air, and leaving the female victim with “significant bruising and abrasions” on her body, Mack said.

“The defendant made no effort to slow down or brake before striking the victims,” Mack said.

The Focus struck the victim’s vehicle, causing a chain collision with two other vehicles in the parking lane, one of which also struck the stopped CTA bus, he said.

Three other people -- a 69-year-old woman, a 55-year-old woman and a 64-year-old woman -- were treated at Weiss Memorial Hospital and released, according to police. A man, 48, was treated and released from Swedish Covenant Hospital.

A North Side man has been charged with reckless homicide and numerous traffic violations after police say he plowed into pedestrians and parked cars in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, killing a 71-year-old man and injuring five other people.

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